# Bound by Blood

Author: Evelyn M. Hart
Site: ReadNovelHub
Canonical: https://readnovelhub.com/novel/bound-by-blood
Genre: Vampire-Blood-Bond

## World
Drink my blood to survive, or let your holy silver burn you alive.

## Tropes
- Forced Proximity
- Billionaire Romance
- Dark Romance
- Vampire & Blood Bond
- Mafia & Dark Romance
- Urban War Hero & Secret Billionaire
- Vampire-Blood-Bond
- Mafia-Dark-Romance
- Urban-WarHero-Tycoon

## FAQ
### What is Bound by Blood about?
Drink my blood to survive, or let your holy silver burn you alive.

### Who is the author of Bound by Blood?
Bound by Blood is written by Evelyn M. Hart. Read Chapter 1 free on ReadNovelHub.

### Is Bound by Blood a Forced Proximity story?
Yes. Bound by Blood is tagged for Forced Proximity, Billionaire Romance, Dark Romance readers looking for North American romance-fantasy tropes.

### Can I read Bound by Blood Chapter 1 for free?
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### What happens at the start of Bound by Blood?
The monastery smells like old blood and wet stone. I'm standing at the iron gate, and I shouldn't be here. Four hundred years. That's how long I stayed away from St. Stone.

## Chapter 1 teaser
### Bound by Blood - Chapter 1: The Voice Under St. Stone

The monastery smells like old blood and wet stone. I'm standing at the iron gate, and I shouldn't be here. Four hundred years. That's how long I stayed away from St. Stone. That's how long I kept my promise to never come back. But three nights ago, I heard her voice. My mother's voice. She said my name. Not the name I use now—Ella Nowak, clean and forgettable—but the name she gave me when I was born. The name no one alive should know. So yeah. I'm back. The gate's rusted shut, but I don't need it open. I slip through the gap where the hinge broke decades ago, probably when the last priest died and the diocese decided this place wasn't worth keeping. The courtyard's overgrown. Weeds push through the cracks in the stones. There used to be a fountain here. Now it's just a hole full of dead leaves. I cross to the chapel. The door's half off. Inside, the pews are rotting, and something's nested in the altar cloth. I don't look too close. I'm not here for the chapel. I'm here for what's underneath. The crypt entrance is behind the altar, hidden under a stone slab with a carving so worn you can barely see the cross anymore. I kneel and press my palm flat against it. The stone's cold enough to sting, even through my glove. I wait. Nothing. I pull the glove off and try again, skin to stone. This time, I feel it. A hum. Low and old, like a current running through bones. The slab shifts—just an inch—and I get my fingers under the edge and haul it aside. It weighs maybe three hundred pounds, but I've always been strong. Comes with the blood. The Darkborn blood. The stairs go down into black. No light. No sound. I've got a flashlight in my coat, but I don't take it out yet. I sit on the edge of the hole and let my legs dangle, and I breathe. In. Out. I can feel the thing inside me w

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